As for me oh. There is no need for them to participate and they should prepare themselves in the next world Cup. If they qualify and participate, what happened in the AFCON Championship will still repeat itself again so there is no need. Super Eagles I know in 2000 to 2014 were good though they used to disappoint us but when Kanu, Jaja were in the team, they were doing good. Even they didn't win a cup they can play to the semi final or to the final but now it is on the group stage of the first two matches that knocking them out from the field, or the tournament.
It is important that the Nigeria super eagles qualifies to participate in the next World Cup. With each world cup tournament attended it increases a country's rate in world football rate. Do a quick research you'll observe that Nigeria rating both in African football and the world dropped from their failure to qualify in the 2022 world cup.
They may not have a torrential performance in contrast to the set of players you make reference to it it will the bad enough that they in a row failed to qualify for this tournament in the country's history that will be a negative record.